Intel struggling to fix hardware-based issues in processors: Report

San Francisco: Chipset making giant Intel has been struggling to fix a hardware-based security flaw in its processors that could potentially leak confidential data from a PC or server.
The firm is still coming up short on patching the vulnerabilities, said security researchers from the VUSec group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, according to a report in PC Mag.
Two separate groups of academics said they were able to exploit the chip flaws on the 9th-generation Intel “Cascade Lake” processors, which were supposedly designed to stop such attacks.
“Unfortunately, until there is sufficient public/industry pressure, there seems to be little incentive for Intel to change course, leaving the public with a false sense of security,” the researchers added.